Show OREGON glendale news herman kissinger struck a six inch stringer of solid galena in the big six foot ledge of the he t bald eagle on grave creek assays essays proved it to contain gold silver and lead to the value of famous greenback is situated per ton the on the same creek and the th e con country throughout is thoroughly mineral mineralized iced grants pass mining journal robert shaw and al W freeburg are running a tunnel on a promising quartz claim on ash land creek in the vicinity of the reader mine which they call the pearl the claim has thus far prospected well and they will sink upon the ledge which contains free gold ore sumpter american within a few days the fore force at the victor will be considerably increased and three shifts will be employed driving the working tunnel to vein I 1 anti and the split of the taber fraction into the victor claim the tunnel is now in about feet and is expected to reach vein 2 in a very short time glendale news the placer mine of briggs bros is doing a good winters worl work with the giants the columbia is using three giants and is cutting gravel night and day they have had a good water supply ever since they begun operations and under the management of superintendent foss are making a good showing and rapid pro gres granite gem the work of constructing the crane flat dredge will be started in a short time we understand that burbidge burch are anxiously waiting for spring to come so construction work can be started with the exception of a small quantity of lumber all the material for the erection of the plant has been delivered and when work is started there should be but little delay till it is completed glendale news A rich strike is reported atthe bennett mackin mine of the grave grava creek district the ledge has been struck in the lower tunnel which has been under construction for some time past and according to the reports a rich vein of considerable dimensions has been exposed the ledge at this point is over six feet in width with free gold visible in a great deal of the rock granite gem the magnolia is another property in this district that has been waiting for spring before starting work on a larger scale four or five men have been employed at the magnolia all winter but W with ith coming of warm weather the water will start and the mill can be put in operation this will mean the employment of 20 to 30 men we are reliably informed that mr air vinson will have hav e the mine going full force soon after march 1 granite gem last week rich ore was wag struck at the wolverine the find was made in the drift where work has been centered for some time it was not an unexpected strike as the ledge at this point on the surface shows a good ore shoot and the discovery goes to prove that the shoots on the wolverine continue to depth where the ore comes into the v vein ein it is from eighteen inches to two fet wide drifting has con linued on the vein and continues to show about the same quantity of the high grade ore sumpter miner the ledge has been cut in a fot crosscut tunnel on the nine strike extension on little cracker creek owned by the wisconsin gold mining company of which tony mohr is general manager foreman jack came down from the mine tuesday night and reported to manager mohr that the vein has been opened manager mohr has directed the working crew to immediately commence drifting where the vein is opened across the creek it displays a width of twenty five feet at the point where the foot crosscut tunnel enters the ore the vein filling reveals all the characteristics of the mother lode although the nine strike vein is a parallel system presumably being on the same zone as the cracker oregon |